Who's got the gun?
Driver hit bicyclist with gun, police say
A Columbia man was arrested last night on suspicion of hitting another man in the head with a gun after an apparent traffic dispute, police said.
Quick, which one has the gun?
[Driver hit] [bicyclist with gun]
[Driver hit] [bicyclist] [with gun]
It's easy to tell in the lede, because of the extra prepositional phrase between "man" and "with a gun." It's tricker in the hed, and thus a good argument for trading the ambiguous detail for a different approach:
Driver accused of assault after dispute
You can't have everything in a hed. Might as well have one thing you know, rather than one thing that could be a couple of things.
A Columbia man was arrested last night on suspicion of hitting another man in the head with a gun after an apparent traffic dispute, police said.
Quick, which one has the gun?
[Driver hit] [bicyclist with gun]
[Driver hit] [bicyclist] [with gun]
It's easy to tell in the lede, because of the extra prepositional phrase between "man" and "with a gun." It's tricker in the hed, and thus a good argument for trading the ambiguous detail for a different approach:
Driver accused of assault after dispute
You can't have everything in a hed. Might as well have one thing you know, rather than one thing that could be a couple of things.
Labels: heds
posted by fev at 4:14 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home